Showing posts with label high. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Man, I'm so behind

I have about 2 weeks worth of WODs that I have yet to log on here.

I am in Florida for the next 2 weeks and I have been lucky enough to have found a box, Strongpoint Crossfit, that has that same lovely feeling I have when I'm at PCF. Where everyone is friendly, supportive, having fun... Challenging programming without it being completely demoralizing... Coaching that is encouraging and constructive. The people at Strongpoint CF give a shit. And I felt that from the first email I got back from owner Ryan over a month ago.

Monday, February 13

Power Clean every minute on the minute for 10 minutes for load.  
Rest.
“The Chief” – Five three minute rounds for reps of 3 power cleans (135# Men/95# Women), 6 push ups, 9 air squats.  Rest one minute between rounds.


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My score: 224






Wednesday, February 15


Overhead Squat 3-3-3 -3-3


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Workout of the Day:
Three rounds for time of:
275 153 pound Deadlift, 10 reps

50 Double-unders




My time- 6:12 
Was originally gonna do it 135# but happy I went with heavier weight. Just recently struggled with 3Reps @ 155# , so pleased I was able to do 30 reps. I'm super happy with my performance. I did this all by myself at Strongpoint, with Ryan encouraging me the entire time.  I collapsed in a sweaty heap, and I got that post WOD high that I'm addicted to :) 

Thursday, June 23, 2011

I'm going to stop asking


21-15-9 reps for time:

Dumbbell Thrusters (50/35#) 15# for me

Burpee Pull-ups



Lung burner. Pukie. Good god. This is like Fran on 'roids. Thrusters obviously suck balls, but then you add the Dumbbell element where you need soooo much core strength to stabilize and control the dumbbells. My left side is definitely my weaker side.

So WOD recap: Started out by doing 11 Thrusters then threw my DBs on the ground. The last 10 were wretched. The 21 burpee pull ups, while the plus side of them are that you can pace them slow, they completely zapped my energy. I had to kip so hard to get a legit pull up. Set 15 was the WORST! It was at this point I started to feel the burn in my stomach and chest up to my throat... I felt soooooo slow on the thrusters. I had to break up the 15 reps into sets of 5. Zeb had to remind me to breath; ya, I was pretty much holding my breath the entire I was thrusting, probably not a good idea. I realize I have to learn how to stabilize my core and not hold my breath while doing so. The 15 burpee PUs were kind of a blur. 
I was soooooo gassed at the start at the 9 set that it got me angry enough and motivated to just end this shit. Took 4 big ass breaths and just fuckin' hammered out the 9 thrusters with my eyes closed. 

The last 9 burpee PUs were fuckin' brutal. I had Zeb and Coach Zen countin' me down and cheerin' me on. I really wanted to take a break, but I kept moving, albeit slowly, but I was moving. I did 4. Then 2. Then the last 3 Zeb announced to the box I was on my last 3 and all I could hear was a cacophony of "Assassin this!" and "Assassin that!" and all I wanted to do was to puke. I made sure that the last 3 pull ups perfect, with chin well above the bar. Again I had to kip sooo violently since my arms were just fuckin' dead. 

I collapsed on the floor and did not move for about 15 mins. I was completely wrecked and useless. My body was a big throbbing heart beat. I had that post wod euphoria for about an hour and thirty minutes. 

I love that feeling. 

PS- I tore on my right hand. 

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Illusions

se·cret  (skrt)
adj.
1. Kept hidden from knowledge or view; concealed.
2. Dependably discreet.
3. Operating in a hidden or confidential manner: 
4. Known or shared only by the initiated

We all keep secrets. Secrets are kept secret because usually they have the power to hurt or injure someone. Maybe that someone is yourself. So you harbor the secret in a manner that suit your motives; you draw energy from it. You may be dying to share your secret, because all that energy you can't absorb all yourself, so you start to align accomplices whom you feel will guard and feed off the secret as you do. You tell the secret to one person; and he tells it to another, who in turns tells another... and so on and so forth. Soon the energy is being drawn from so many people that the secret no longer has the same value it had when it was your secret alone...